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The City's agenda: CC_Reg_Packet_03_06_2023 (its items are not yet read into this briefing).
The recording's machine transcription is below. It is unverified: words and names may be misheard, and it cannot establish who acted or how anyone voted.
Agenda (the City's wording)
The City's agenda for this meeting is on file (CC_Reg_Packet_03_06_2023), but its item list has not been read reliably by machine yet, so no outline is shown.
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thanks to you for allowing us all to arrive here today at the beautiful city hall and beautiful city of Cocoa. I ask that you give us a sound line and we make only the best decisions on behalf of the citizens of Cocoa. We
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No worries. And we have a pastor in the house. Pastor, we'll have our next meeting at 6 o'clock sharp. You'll give us invocation. Yes, sir? Yes, sir. Thank you kindly, sir. All right. Seeing none on the delegations. Proceeding on the city business. Approve the purchase. This is a no-brainer.
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Assigning the use of fund balance. Approve of additional $1.5 million to the fiscal year 22 assigned fund balance listing. Provide city manager authority to approve the subsequent budget transfer from contingency to the appropriate general ledger accounts directly ‸ related to this project. Specify the signed fund balance listing exhibit A, 23-175. Ladies and gentlemen, this is something we must address immediately, expeditiously,
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this is the reason why we are, one moment please, ‸ this is the reason why we are having this special meeting. So what I will do is make a motion, then I will hear from my finance director, and then we'll call the question. Should we like to make a motion to approve staff recommendations stated as I read directly into the minutes? And I'm looking for a second. Second.
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Mr. Mayor, let me, let me, I wanted to go first, because there's been some things put out there with regards to this, and this is, and Rebecca will take you through the accounting and legalese and all of those fine terms there. But what you're in essence approving here is, actually are the ‸ items that you approved previously with regards to the assigned fund balance
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The only new thing I would say that's before you is the ‸ enterprise resource system there. And ‸ that's the software that runs all of the ‸ financial and ‸ purchasing programs there.
Yeah, so ‸ that's not new funding there. But the thrust ‸ of this item is, and I think you were, I was standing with you, Mr. Mayor, on Friday when Mrs.
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And then the rest of it is the accounting actions that have to occur to affect your decisions at the workshop. And I'll let her do the accounting mumbo-jumbo language stuff.
Thank you, Mr. City Manager. Roger. Yeah, so city council approved the assigned fund balance listing at the last budget workshop. However, there was no motion made to allow us to do the budgetary assignment of the fund balance.
that he needed to buy the fire truck and that the cost was going up. So that necessitated having to get together and at least allow him to be able to do that purchase out of
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fund balance. So the rest of the agenda item is just cleaning up all the accounting and putting everything back in place because my staff is very closely monitoring the spending of all the assigned fund balance. So by assigning everything into one place, everything's already budgeted. And when we do a budget amendment that changes our adopted budget by state statute, we need to go through a process to amend that budget. And so that's what we're doing.
Thank you very much, ma'am. Kudos to you, Mrs. Bowman, because every time we've been audited by the various organizations, CPA organizations, superlative remarks. And that's impeccable. That's indicative of the work that you're committed and your staff. And it works all the way down the line. Teamwork is dream work. So kudos to you, city manager, Mrs. Bowman, and staff, and
So we thank you. We've been good taxpayer dollars, ‸ stewards of the taxpayer dollars. We're saving them $50,000. And this, again, sometimes people put out false narratives. But we said at our last council meeting, we're going to stay on the positive side and continue to move forward.
But it's okay. Because I know we're going to do the right thing for the right cause for the right reason. Why? Because we're at a workshop and ‸ that was displayed and conveyed at the workshop that we all attended this past week. So let truth stand on its own.
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on chair entertains a ‸ motion to adjourn. Move to adjourn. We have a motion on floor by Councilman Dowell. Second by the chair. Chair's going to call the question. ‸ I'm in favor.